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Continue reading →: Moved to Substack
I decided recently to officially move over to Substack. I didn’t want to keep paying for WordPress, and I’m enjoying the community there. I have been off of Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok for two weeks so far (fasting for Lent), and this is the best I’ve ever felt mentally (especially…
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Continue reading →: ResistanceMy soul is worn. This is not depression but mental and emotional and spiritual exhaustion. The state of our country is terrifying. Everyone tells me not to pay attention. Let it go. Ignore it. Focus on what is in front of me. I can’t be complacent. I can’t look away.…
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Continue reading →: Questions for Reflection & Discernment and Processing 2025Looking Toward 2026 Less is more. That’s the thing. That’s my main take-away from 2025. Every year, Emily P. Freeman (podcaster and author) puts out “10 Questions for Reflection & Discernment,” and I love to answer these questions each year as a reflection of my previous year and the beginning…
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Continue reading →: Low Buy YearI have been working on consistency in budgeting and keeping up with logging our expenses, and I’m seeing more and more how much I frivolously spend. My goal was to start by being aware, and my next step is to make changes. I ended up on the “no buy year”…
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Continue reading →: Beyond ThankfulThis morning, through the Lectio 365 app, we read the story (Luke 7:36-50) about the woman who was so humbled and grateful to be with Jesus that she wet his feet with her tears and poured an alabaster jar of oil/perfume on his feet. The Pharisees were like… if you…
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Continue reading →: Peace in the ChaosI have felt too overwhelmed to put thoughts into words. I have felt like my words wouldn’t matter or even make sense. I have been too overloaded mentally to process through the chatter in my head. I am finally feeling some mental and emotional space, so I thought I would…
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Continue reading →: Life is BittersweetFrom “The View Between Villages” by Noah Kahan “Passed Alger Brook Road, I’m over the bridgeA minute from home but I feel so far from itThe death of my dog, the stretch of my skinIt’s all washin’ over me, I’m angry againThe things that I lost here, the people I…
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Continue reading →: We Are Not in ControlAs moms, from the moment we find out we are pregnant, we want to protect our babies. We want them to thrive. We have dreams of who they will become as older kids, teenagers, and adults. We have an idea in our minds of how that will look from the…
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Continue reading →: 9 Years Sober and My Beautiful LifeToday I’m celebrating 9 years (3287 days) of sobriety. I am in the same place that I was 9 years ago when I decided to take myself to rehab (my parents’ house). Robert was out of town, and the kids and I were visiting my parents. I got drunk the…
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Continue reading →: Sacred UnravelingSACRED. Holy. Set apart. Divine. UNRAVELING. Threads loosening. Coming undone. Letting go. Surrender. Through the mess of unraveling, I have developed a deeper relationship with the person of Christ. He has been right there with me as I have been learning who I am and slowly lowering the mask that…
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Welcome to Simply Courtney! I am a wife of 22 years, mom of 2 teens and one young adult, and an Assistant Food Service Director at a Christian camp. I am passionate about many things, and I enjoy writing about them all! Jesus, mental health, nutrition and fitness, adventure and nature, chickens and gardening, homeschooling my high school student, organizing and planning, cooking and baking, and so much more!
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